The 60's(part 2)

            This movie is spicy; the first thing that makes me think is that my generation is not as lost as people said. It is impressive, how even the soldiers were smoking weed; people seemed to be “high” all the time. I think that they took hashish brownies for breakfast. However, this is not an exaggeration from what happened in real life, and in some way it keeps happening. In the parts seen of the movie, the black people start to hit back. For a lot of time they were mistreated, but now they are tired and start a riot in Los Angeles. Emmet joins to the riot, until his father catches him, convinces him to come home, Emmet gives him a gun he stole, and then the police arrives and kills his father. This just shows how violent and tense the situation got, as a direct cause of segregation. Samantha in the other hand, becomes a real activist, she gets so in deep on it, that she begins to cheat on Michael with the leader of the protests, Kenny, who was the man that did not let her expose her opinions before (and yet), but he becomes a hero, because he almost died trying to stop a train. Michael finds it out, tries to impress her with a brave action, stopping the National Guard from hitting all of the people that were marching to end the war with sweet words, more specifically, “We are not against the soldiers, we are against the war”. But things did not worked out; he is not as radical as she is. Then he helps with the campaign for presidency of a candidate that is against the war. He collects signatures, and gets his mother’s signature, the first open protest from his mother to the gender role she has. This is because, his father defends the war, but she does not, and she faces her husband and tells him that she has her own opinions, breaking with the gender role of the pleasant and sweet housewife. Katie ran from home, and assumes the gender role of a mother, because now she has to take care of her baby, because, although she found the father of the baby, he is as responsible and mature as a three year old child. The struggles arise; the war gets worse, while Brian is still in Vietnam fighting. The tension gets greater, and there is no resolution yet in any part. The civil rights movement evolved and turned to an angry and violent response of a race that has got tired of being oppressed. The gender roles are better defined, and the problems are seen better at this point. The resolution of all the problems is not seen yet.